Yusuf Islam, the folk singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, who wrote such popular songs as “Peace Train” and “Morning has Broken” is well known for rejecting all aspects of his secular life including his famous songs and becoming a devout Muslim in the late 1970’s, even going as far as publicly supporting the worldwide death fatwa against the author Salomon Rudshi in 1989. More recently, Yusuf has been starting to play his pre-Islamic songs once again while also remaining a devout Muslim.
This is a video of Yusuf reading a well known but unfortunately illegitimate writing known as “Muhammad’s Last Sermon,” which is purported to be a speech that Muhammad gave to a large group of his followers at the end of his life where he spread messages of peace and goodwill toward all peoples. The writing is not actually accepted by authoritative Muslim scholars but many “look the other way” due to its potential value as a recruitment tool and for influencing the general public’s opinions of Islam.
See this article explaining the writing’s likely origins as the work of an anonymous Imam in India who wanted to “enhance Islam” by forging the document.
Germany’s Finance Minister Markus Söder has called for refugees be sent home over the next three years, saying that Germany does not want a multicultural society and it is impossible to integrate people from such different cultural backgrounds.
He said, “Even with the best intentions in the world, it will not work to integrate successfully that many people with a completely different cultural background,” adding that many asylum seekers pose a security threat.
He also said that many parts of Iraq and Afghanistan are currently recognized as safe, and mentioned that the war in Syria will end sometime soon, also saying “According to legislation, people have to return home when the reason for fleeing is no longer valid.”
Earlier this year he criticized Angela Merkel for allowing so many refugees to enter Germany, saying “It is a big mistake to open the borders without any checks.” Over one million people have arrived in Germany over the past year.
Hempcrete is a building material which is similar to concrete made out of hemp stalks and lime, however it is much stronger, lighter, more versatile, and it is environmentally friendly.
— Hempcrete can be used for wall insulation, floors, walls, roofing and more. It is very strong, lightweight, fire-proof, rot-proof, and water-proof as long as it is above ground.
— Hempcrete is made from shredded stems of hemp plants and mixed with lime in a manner similar to cement.
— Solid hempcrete walls can be used rather than traditional walls filled with insulation. The material is breathable and it absorbs moisture from the outside which it releases again once the air is drier.
— The lime and cellulose mixture of Hempcrete slowly petrifies over time, continually becoming stronger, theoretically lasting for thousands of years.
— Hemp is an excellent sustainable building material due to it growing to maturity in 14 weeks. It also requires no fertilizer, weed killer, or pesticides to grow.
— Hemps seeds are also a very nutritious “super food” rich in vitamins and nutrients.
— Hempcrete has a “negative carbon footprint” due to hemp plants absorbing CO2 as they grow, but despite this fact, the political establishment which claims to think that global warming is a big problem is not embracing and espousing hempcrete technology for widespread utilization. This is because either they are exaggerating claims about climate change or because they are concerned with keeping their systems in society the way that they have them.
View a news report about a mob of about 30 Somalian men terrorizing an upscale community near Lake Calhoun, Minnesota earlier this week. They were gathering in front of houses screaming that they were going to kidnap and rape the residences inside, reported citizens from the neighborhood.
Most of the Somalis who live in Minnesota are Sunni Muslims and they have been known to terrorize towns in the area before.
The U.S State Department has been working with the United Nations to permanently resettle more than 132,000 Somalis into dozens of American cities since 1983.
This video is a good example of how many people inaccurately assume that Islam is essentially no different than other mainstream religions. “Politically correct” culture is very uninformed about Islam.
See this article explaining many disturbing facts about Islam that would surprise most people.
This video shows an anti-Islamization demonstration in Sydney, Australia, which reveals useful strategies for activists by watching it.
If you watch the video starting at about 3:40, you see a protester being asked questions by a bystander, but the protestor isn’t quite prepared to answer his questions off the top of her head to her frustration, despite her fears being justified. (See the following articles which clarify what she is concerned about: “Creeping Sharia”, “Muslim Demographics”, “The Grand Deception”, and “Hitler Embraced Islam”.)
A good way for activist groups to avoid such problems while protesting is for all involved to coordinate in order to identify and memorize certain “core points” that they are protesting, including the most “big picture” concerns like she was being asked about, all of which should also be printed on flyers which can be handed out as well.
If people still have questions that a particular activist doesn’t know the answer to, more well informed activists should be made available to answer those questions, and also on-the-spot internet access should ideally be available to the activists.
Activists should also make a note of all of the questions they are asked so they can be better prepared to answer those questions in the future.
Additionally, activists should “practice” while protesting during moments when they are not actually talking to people from the public, by quizzing each other about key topics and videotaping how they respond.
(Note the audio on this video clip is set to a very low volume)
This video shows Muslims commenting about demonstrations which are protesting about new religious blasphemy laws in Sydney, Australia.
A Muslim man is shown saying: “The message is very simple: Freedom of expression has some limits. You cannot simply spread the message of hate and say ‘This is the freedom of expression’! You know, it has to be condemned on all levels, whether it is Australia or it is the United States [(but he never mentions any Islamic countries)]. … Freedom of expression doesn’t mean that you can insult people.”
A Muslim woman is then shown saying: “Freedom of expression means you don’t hurt other ones. And these kinds of words [people protesting anti-free speech laws] hurt Muslims, so this is not right. If you are going within your limits, it’s all right.”
The Muslim man then says, “People are being outrageous about this and this is not correct, freedom of expression has to be within the context but this is totally out of the context.”
Kirralie Smith, who is running for Senate in Australia, speaks out about a “religious vilification law” which was recently passed in the ACT Australian government that she explains is an unfair “blasphemy law.” She mentions that Victoria, Australia has had similar laws implemented since 2002, and she explains some of the disturbing issues that have arisen because of those laws.
Following are points that she mentions:
— The previous Victorian legislation which the new ACT legislation is based upon says that “A person must not, on the grounds of religious activity or belief of a person or class of persons, engage in conduct that incites hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsion or severe ridicule of that person or class of persons.”
— Violence must never be incited, but people should be concerned that the law says that it is illegal to “incite serious contempt or revulsion for a class of people.” It is important that people should be able to do so, citing many disturbing aspects of Islam which should be criticized.
— In a well know case against two men in Victoria, being one of the first cases taken to court under the new blasphemy laws, the complaint stated that Daniel Scott and Danny Nalliah had “vilified Islam” in a private seminar in 2002 when they were lecturing about the differences between Christianity and Islam. The men had lived under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia where they witnessed three beheadings. They quoted from the Quran during the seminar to demonstrate what some Muslims believe, but in the eyes of the law it wasn’t a matter of whether the men told the truth, but rather the fact that they made Muslims “feel bad” by what they said. The Islamic Council barrister even put into record: “Your honor, may I put in record, under the new law, truth is not a defense.”
— She says, “The truth is that the Islamic ideology is hate filled and it does incite violence but somehow that is irrelevant … The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission website states: ‘Vilification is about what we say or do, it is about the words we choose when we speak to others and it is about our behavior. Hateful words and behavior can hurt, isolate, and disconnect people from each other. They can diminish our dignity, sense of self, create fear and lead to anxiety and depression.’ Actually, the hateful words in the Quran and Hadiths do more than hurt, isolate, or disconnect people— they incite hatred and violence to the point of rape, enslavement, and murder. Will preaching from the Quran and Hadiths now be outlawed in Victoria and the ACT? I doubt it. Vilification is not the most serious issue we face as a nation. Our security, safety and freedoms which have been hard fought and won are far more important. If someone is going to have hurt feelings because a hate speech in the Quran is highlighted, than so be it.”
— The legislation allows criticism of Islam, but it does not allow the criticism of anyone who chooses to obey Islam’s ideology. She reiterates again that she does not advocate being violent, but she certainly encourages people to look at what Islam teaches and to expose it. She doesn’t see how it is possible to highlight and expose Islam’s violent hate speech in the Quran and the Hadiths without also being allowed to mention specific examples, and she explains the fact that there are many Muslims who obey the most violent and extreme commands.
— Christians and Jews are constantly vilified in the media, but the blasphemy laws were not implemented with those religions in mind. The proponents of the laws said that hatred and intolerance toward Muslims was one of the biggest intolerance issues in Australia today, but Smith points out that actually the biggest intolerance issues are from the countless Islamic governments and movements who literally obey the commands in the Quran and Hadith.
— She says, “The largest source is intolerance if from the Muslims who insist that Islam is superior to everything else, and they try to impose it on everyone else. … [Another source] of intolerance is the political class and the media elite who hound, harass, mock, and vilify anyone who dares to highlight the facts about Islamic theology.”
— Sonya Kruyger spoke out about Nazism in Germany in the 1930’s when it was illegal to do so, and today’s situation in Australia is walking down the same path as Nazism.
— Islam as an Ideology has seriously dangerous flaws within the Quran and Hadith that are not compatible with freedom, democracy, or equality, and it is essential that everyone continues to stand up and speak out about it.
View footage of a Christian man being attacked by Muslims for distributing pamphlets in a public park in Turkey. A Muslim approaches the man and says “Who gave you permission to stand here? You have to ask permission from us first. The streets belong to us! You will remove this in five minutes, or you will pay with your life!” Soon afterwards a group of men come and hit the man, kicking over his table.
